![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote five of them before getting to Harvard and he intended to write the last one (consistency) after his arrival in the city of Cambridge, in the US state of Massachusetts, where the renowned university is located. ![]() Lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency would be the themes and titles of each of his lessons. Overcoming the excessive liberty he was given – “believing as he did in the importance of constraints” over the literary work – Italo Calvino set the theme of his six conferences: he would cover some of the literary values that deserved to be preserved in the course of the new millennium which was to start some years later. ![]() Calvino was the first Italian ever invited. Eliot had accepted University of Harvard's invitation. In the previous years, names such as Leonard Bernstein, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Meyer Schapiro, Igor Stravinsky e T. Set in 1925 to pay homage to one of the first professors of art and literature in Harvard, the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures are a set of six conferences given by a great name in the field of arts, literature, painting, music or architecture on a topic of his/her choice in the course of one academic year. On June 6th, 1984, Italo Calvino – one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century – was invited by University of Harvard (USA) to give the traditional and respected Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures for the 1985/1986 academic year. ![]()
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